About Me

When I was twelve years old, all I wanted to do was decorate cakes. I liked to practice making cakes for my grandma when she would come to town every week for her doctor's appointment. I would decorate a cake for her with those tubes of icing that you buy at the grocery store. The cake was never pretty but she always told me how great they were anyway.

Anytime anyone had a birthday or needed a cake, I quickly volunteered my services. I would spend the whole day in the kitchen making roses over and over trying to salvage just one that looked half way presentable. It would literally take me hours just to produce three ugly roses to put on the cake, but I never gave up.

Finally, I decided after doing everything the hard way, I wanted to take a real cake decorating course. So at age fifteen, I took the Wilton Cake Decorating Course for beginners at a local craft store. After six weeks of classes, I was on my way. I became the cake girl for everyone I knew. I made a lot of birthday cakes and character cakes to start with. When I was seventeen, I got my first real job at a bakery in the mall. On my very first day of work, the owner told me to make fifty red roses for a wedding cake she was making. "FIFTY!" I thought! It took me eight hours just to make three roses that looked half way decent! My heart was beating a mile a minute because I didn't know what to say to her. I am sure the look on my face said it all. So one by one I made a rose and quickly kept scraping them off in the icing bowl and starting over. She told me to stop throwing them out and just put them on the plate and they would be just fine, she promised. Hours later, there they were, fifty roses. I couldn't believe I had done it. She used every last rose on her cake and after putting the leaves on them, they didn't look half bad. After a lot of hours of practice, I realized that the instructor of my cake decorating class was left-handed and was teaching me how to make a rose backwards! So then I started making my roses in the opposite direction and they turned out just fine.

I made my first wedding cake when I was seventeen and have been decorating ever since. I always like the challenge of trying a new cake design and don't limit myself to just making things that I have already done. So bring your thoughts and ideas along with you and together I am confident that we can design the cake of your dreams.